Gordon Livingston Quotes

#1. It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public,

Solomon Northup

#2. What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.

Alexander Lowen

#3. Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

Gordon Livingston

#4. Only bad things happen quickly, ... Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.

Gordon Livingston

#5. There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

Gordon Livingston

#6. Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

Luther Standing Bear

#7. We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

Gordon Livingston

#8. Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

Gordon Livingston

#9. There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.

Keith Richards

#10. She served supper at midnight.

Ken Follett

#11. If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

Gordon Livingston

#12. In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing what they saw, and with the ears, listening to the words pronounced. hearing what is called the "voices of the pages." It is a real acoustical reading.

Jean Leclercq

#13. If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

Plato

#14. Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact that choosing one option reduces you to the parameters of that choice. Thus, in knowing my possibilities, I also knew my limitations.

Rolf Potts

#15. Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

Gordon Livingston

#16. Zen has no business with ideas.

D.T. Suzuki

#17. You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?" "Yes," Percy said. "I declare this is stupid.

Anonymous

#18. I may not be the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick the smartest people to do business with and size them up very fast.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#19. It is our determination to overcome fear and discouragement that constitutes the only effective antidote to the sense of powerlessness over unwanted feelings.

Gordon Livingston

#20. We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

Gordon Livingston

#21. We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

Gordon Livingston

#22. Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

Gordon Livingston

#23. I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath." Jo

Louisa May Alcott

#24. You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.

Aimee Bender

#25. Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

Gordon Livingston

#26. Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.

Aysha Taryam

#27. You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

Dusty Baker